Combined envelop and sheet of paper.



Patented April 19, 1904.

RACE N. WILT, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

COMBINED ENVELOP AND SHEET OF PAPER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 757,801, dated April19, 1904.

Application filed February 25, 1903. Serial No. 144,955- (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, RACE N. WILT, of Chicago, in the county of Cook andState of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements ina Combined Envelop and Sheet of Paper; and I do hereby declare that thefollowing is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, referencebeing had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of referencemarked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

This invention relates to a combined en-' velop and sheet of paper soarranged that any desired writing may be placed upon the latter,together with the name and address of the person, firm, or corporationto whom the same is to be sent, and when the sheet is properly foldedand secured together the address on the sheet of paper will clearlyappear through a proper aperture in the envelop, thus avoiding thenecessity of writing or printing the address on the outside of theenvelop.

To this end the invention consists in the novel arrangement andcombination herein shown and described, and more particularly pointedout in the appended claims. a

My invention will be readily comprehende from the accompanying drawings,in which-- Figure 1 illustrates the top or face side of the articlefolded for mailing; Fig. 2, the reverse side of the same; Fig. 3, oneform of the invention opened out or unfolded.

I have chosen to illustrate my invention as arranged for commercialpurposes, the sheet of paper being of the form and ruling commonly knownas a statement or bill of an account; but it will of course be readilyunderstood that the sheet may be of other form or dimensions.

In said drawings the letter A represents the combined envelop and sheetof paper as a whole, comprising two main sections or parts asheet-section A and an envelop-section B. These two sections A B areintegral and will be of such shape and will have such indenting orscoring or lines upon which the fold will come as will be required togive the sheet A the dimensions and shape required for any particularuse. The envelop-sectionBwill usually 5 be provided with a centralcrease or line 6, upon which it will ultimately be folded to form theface 6 and the back 6 of the sealed package. One of these sections,preferably the face 6, will be provided with gummedmarginal flaps 5 I),which when the package is closed will fold along the top and end marginsof the face-section b and over and be secured to the back section 6 andthus seal the package.

The sheet-section A is shown in the drawings as provided with twotransverse lines or creases a (4, along which it may be folded; In themiddle and lower parts (divided by the crease a) the desired writing oraccount may be placed, while in the top portion (above the 5 crease a)the date may be placed and the name and address of the addressee.

Through the face-section b of the envelop B an aperture C of suitableshape is cut out opposite to oradapted to register with the 7 name andaddress in the top portion of the sheet a when folded, whereby theaddress may be clearly seen through the aperture C when the package issealed, as clearly illustrated in Fig. 1. Preferably a thin transparentstrip of paper 0, conforming generally to the shape of but somewhatlarger than the aperture C, will be pasted or otherwise secured upon theunder side of the face-section I), so as to cover the aperture andprotect the address, while at the same time not destroying itsvisibility while the package is sealed.

Now assuming the sheet A to be a monthly statement or a note-size sheetof letter-paper,

with the address written in the upper por- 5 tion and the account statedor message written below in either or both of the other sections, toform a sealed package the person would first fold the lower part uponthe middle part, the fold being along the line a. 9 Then theenvelop-section B would be folded over the letter-section A, the foldbeing along the line 0. At this step in the operation the aperture Cwill register with the address in the toppart of the section A, and sowhen the next step is taken-that is, the final fold upon the line a-theparts 6 and 6 become, respectively, the front and back of the package.These may then be secured togetherby bending the marginal gummed flapsalong the lines I) b and securing them to the back 6 Additional sheetsof'paper may be laid upon the section A as desired, or any other methodof folding the blank may be employed, provided always the address isarranged to register with aperture C when the package is closed.

I am aware that it is not new to make a sheet of paper and an envelop ofone integral sheet, and I am also aware that it is not new to make anenvelop with an' aperture through one of its side faces whereby anaddress placed upon the inclosure or letter within such envelop may beread and the time and annoyance of addressing an envelop is obviated. Myinvention differs from these in this, that the package is made from asingle integral sheet of paper. Among the advantages of this arrangementmay be mentioned economy in manufacture, the juxtaposition of the spacefor the address and the aperture C, whereby the address is always sureto be visible when the package is folded,absolute security against aninspection of the contents of the package, due to the method of foldingas well as to the arrangement of the parts A B, a saving of time inrequiring but a single addressing and handling, and the facility withwhich the package may be opened by the addressee without destroying thecontents or tearing. 01f marginal sections of combined sheet and envelopafter having been folded. These and other advantages of the inventionwill be readily understood.

It will be noted that in the form which I have chosen to illustrate inthe drawings the sheet of paper A and the envelop-section B, comprisingthe two parts 5 6 are joined together along the vertical line 0. This isa convenient arrangement with this particular shape of paper.Manifestly, however, this is not required, and, in fact, the backsection b may be entirely dispensed with, in which case the fold will bein such manner as to bring the section 6 over the face of the uppersection or address portion of the sheet of paper and the gummed flaps Z26 will be fastened on the back of such upper section. In this event, ofcourse, the upper section or portion of the letter-sheet A becomes theback of the envelop or package when folded. The only essential to beborne in mind in adapting this invention to various-sized sheets ofpaper and various shapes of envelops, &c., is that the flap or section bof the envelop portion shall be so attached to the sheet of paper thatit may be folded thereover and have the address portion of the sheet ofpaper register with the aperture C of the flap-section.

When using this invention for business statements, I prefer to make theline ba perforated line and also to use the section b of the envelopportion B, as shown in the drawings. When this is done, it is to beunderstood that the gum-flap sections 5 b are secured over the back 6and the receiver of the package will then tear the sections A and Bapart along the perforated line b, which will enable him to throw theenvelop portion away and have the statement proper for filing. This isan important advantage of the invention in connection with businessstatements and the like.

I claim as my invention 1. An integral envelop and sheet of paper, theformer comprising front and rear sections, which may be detached fromthe sheet while leaving the latter intact and the sheet being adapted tobe folded between said sections,

one of said sections of the envelop being provided with an openingthrough which may be exposed an address written on the sheet.

2. An integral envelop and sheet of paper, the former comprising frontand rear sections, which may be detached from the sheet while leavingthe latter intact and the sheet being adapted to be folded between saidsections, one ofsaid sections of the envelop being provided with anopeningthrough which may be exposed an address written on the sheet anda transparent cover applied over said opening.

3. An integral envelop and sheet of paper, the former comprising frontand back sections, which may be detached from the sheet while leavingthe latter intact and the sheet being adapted to be folded between saidsections, one of said sections of the envelop being provided. with anopening through which may be exposed an address written on the sheet,and one of said envelop-sections being provided with a flap which isadapted to be folded over and secured upon the other section of theenvelop.

4. An integral envelop and sheet of paper, said envelop comprising twosections which extend laterally from one side margin of the sheet andbetween which sections the sheet is adapted to be folded, one of saidenvelop-sections being provided with an opening through which may beexposed an address on the sheet and means for fastening the sections ofthe envelop together around the folded sheet.

5. An integral envelop and sheet of paper,

the envelop extending laterally from one side margin of the sheet andadapted to be detached or torn from the sheet along the line of saidmargin, said envelop being provided with an opening through which anaddress on the sheet may be exposed.

6. An integral envelop and sheet of paper.

comprising the sheet-section A, the two envelop-sections b 6 joined tothe side margin of the sheet-section, the marginal flaps 0n theenvelop-section 6 and the opening (1 in said envelop-section.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention I afiix mysignature, in presence of two witnesses, this 19th day of Febfi'ary, A.D. 1903. q,

RACE N. WILT.

Witnesses:

TAYLOR E. BROWN, GERTRUDE BRYCE.

